Cold War

    The Cold war started in 1947 and lasted to 1991. The war was base on fear of other countries. The United States thought the Soviet Union was a threat to them because they were spreading communism and the Soviet Union thought the United States was a threat to them because they were spreading democracy. This created a huge rivalry between them that led to the Space and Arms Race. Other wars like the Koreon and Vietnam War occurred at the same time as the Cold War and have similarities relating to the Cold War. The Cold War ended in 1991 because communism began to become less popular and the US and the USSR were no longer threats to each other. 

Essential questions:

• Why was communism such a threat to America?
• How did the Space Race influence American education for students?
• How did the rivalry between US and USSR affect the Vietnam War?

A map that shows the territories and allied connection during the Cold War.

A cartton on the Arms Race of the Cold War because it shows that both the United States and Ruissa were threats to eachother because of nuclear threats. The war could have possibly turned into a nuclear war, but that tried to be avioded as much as possible. 

Create a Kahoot game! 

Dirctions:

1.) Research 10 articles on the Cold War

2.) Take notes 

3.) Create a Kahoot

4.) Create 20 questions

5.) Add the Kahoot and add it to a PowerPoint 

6.) Create an Answer Key on the PowerPoint as well 

Process:

1.)  Research 10 articals on these topics (60 minutes):

• Causes of the War
• Effects of the War
• Space Race
• Arms Race 
• Korean War
• Vietnam War
• End of War
• Essential Questions 

2.) Take at least a half of page of notes for each article that you read. Make sure you write your notes in your own words (60 minutes).

3.) Go to www://create.kahoot.it and login to create a Kahoot (5 minutes).

4.) Create 20 questions on each topic you researched (40 minutes).

5.) Copy the Url link of the Kahoot to a Google Slides presentation (5 minutes).

6.) On the same Google Slides presentation add a slide with an Answer Key. On the Answer Key slide write all the answers to each of the questions on the Kahoot. Be sure to include decoration and creativity to your slides (40 minutes).

Rubric:

3 (Highest grade possible):

• Engagement - The student was engaged in doing the project 100% of the time. 
• Completion - The student completed the task completely and fufilled all of the requirements 
• Attractiveness - The student's presentation is attractive in the sense of the PowerPoint being decorated and noticable effort was put into it. 
• Understanding- The student has complete understanding of all the topics and has correct information on all the questions and answers.

2:

• Engagement - Student was engaged 60% of the time, but the other 40% of the time was spent on non related activities.
• Completion - The Student completed the task, but skipped over some of the requirements.
• Attractiveness - The student's presentation has very little creativity and some effort was put into it.
• Understanding - The student gets the main points of the topics, but has some information that is not accurate.

1 (lowest grade possible):

• Engagement - Student spent more time on non related activities than they did on the presentation itself.
• Completion - The student did not complete the task and only did some of the requirements. 
• Attractiveness - The student has a basic presentation with no effort put into it.
• Understanding - The student understand a few of the topics, but most of the information is inaccurate. 

Websites that can be helpful:

http://classroom.synonym.com/causes-fear-communism-us-8372.html

This website is on the Red Scare, Joseph Mcarthyism, and the Cold War's affect on communism. It decribed what the Red Scare was and how it related to communism in the Cold War. 

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2007/10/02/sci_sputnik_…

This website is how the orbit of Sputnik changed the views on students, teachers, and governmet. The schools and curriculum has changed into being more advance because people were fearful of the Russians becoming smarter than us.

http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/vietnam-war-us-involveme…

This website is on the Vietnam war and why America chose to support South Vietnam in the vietnam war. it explained how North Vietnam was controlled my communist ruled countries. With the South being allied with a democratic government and the North being allied with all communist countries, they went to war. This relates to the Cold War because once again it's the communist countries against the democratic.

http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history

A website on what happened throughout the Vietnam War. The artical went in detail on some of the battles and objectives of the war.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1996-09-01/soviet…

A website on the Soviet Unions envolvment in the Vietnam War. The Soviet Unions perspective was talked about and how they supported the North Vietnam.

http://www.nationalcoldwarexhibition.org/schools-colleges/national-curr…

A website what the Space Race was and how it affected our technology and military. The Space Race was between Russia and the United States on who could go into space first.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/sputnik-impact-on-america.html

Focused on the topic of Sputnik and how much publicity it got after the launch. US started using space as a military weapon beacuse Sputnik was such a threat.

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/redscare.html

An article on the Red Scare. This relates to the topic of communism because it's what happened when the US got worried about communism coming into the US.

http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/domino-theory

A website on the Domino theory. It explained how communism would take over a countries, then the surrounding countries would be influenced and become communist as well.

Survey Questions

1.) Could you completely understand the task and process?

2.) Was the task challenging, or not challenging enough?

3.) Did you learn a lot about the Cold War after finishing this WebQuest?

4.) Did you learn a lot by doing a game, or would you prefer to write an informative essay?

5.) Was the 9 given websites helpful to your notes?